Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

No, not at the moment. That is a rolling programme. It has taken us some time to have complete coverage around the country in terms of putting the infrastructure in place. One should bear in mind that this was happening at the same time as we were rolling out Intreo centres. The logistics of putting in place the infrastructure for the public services cards meant that the project took longer than others. We now have 94 locations with 150 stations and we are confident that within a very short number of months we have complete geographic coverage around the country. One also has to take account of the flows in and out. The 300,000 who might be in receipt of payment X today will not be the 300,000 who were in receipt of it two months ago or two weeks ago. Approximately 75% of job seekers and about 70% of one-parent family payment recipients have a public services card. As I have indicated already, about half of people entitled to the free travel scheme have a public services card at this stage. Our initial target has always been to capture people who are in receipt of a social welfare payment, but obviously then we will broaden the scope, and we are looking to broaden the scope of the public services card as well.